[Rd] Using rsync from Windows

[David Meyer]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 
> I've just installed the Cygwin version of rsync, with an aim of
> syncing to the development version, as recommended on
> <http://cran.r-project.org/sources.html>.  Could someone give an
> example of the syntax to invoke it?  From the man page, I expected
> 
>  rsync rsync.rproject.org::

Try: rsync rsync.r-project.org::
                  ^

> 
> to give me a file listing, but I get:
> 
>  unknown host: rsync.rproject.org
> 
> Other network utilities (e.g. ssh) work, so it's not a simple network
> problem, it's something I've missed in the rsync setup or on the
> command line.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
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